{"id":509,"date":"2017-10-13T04:45:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2017-10-13T04:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:45:46","slug":"509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/509\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible Writing Advice: Slasher Films!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Friday the 13th landing on October, this week&#8217;s Terrible Writing Advice is about Slasher Films! Terrible Writing Advice is a video series by Joseph Beaubien (Who has multiple social media accounts, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/authorJPBeaubien\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosephPBeaubien\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ogrx6d9oohf6D42G44j1A\">YouTube<\/a>, and his very own <a href=\"http:\/\/jpbeaubien.com\/\">website<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p>Without any further ado, here&#8217;s the video. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzhldKdXkOM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Again, super fun! I&#8217;m not one much for writing horror stories, and I don&#8217;t watch many myself (except for the Saw series&#8230; I got into those for a while), but I can see that there&#8217;s a bit of a formula to them.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with a slasher film is that they necessarily follow that formula, because, let&#8217;s face it, a slasher film where nobody gets slashed isn&#8217;t much of a slasher film. An antagonist that can&#8217;t stalk and murder a bunch of (stereotypically) attractive but otherwise unskilled and inexperienced teenagers is a really, <em>really<\/em> ineffective antagonist.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, you have the ultra-intelligent, technically skilled Jigsaw. You have the dream-murdering Freddy Kreuger. Jason, Mike Myers, Leatherface, so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>While, like I said, I don&#8217;t watch a lot of horror movies, but I think I would be interested in seeing a slasher film where the characters are nuanced and deep, and the antagonist is a little more realistic, but then&#8230; would that still be a slasher film?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Let me know in the comments below, and as always, thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Friday the 13th landing on October, this week&#8217;s Terrible Writing Advice is about Slasher Films! Terrible Writing Advice is a video series by Joseph Beaubien (Who has multiple social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and his very own website!). Without any further ado, here&#8217;s the video. Enjoy! Again, super fun! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandoncornwell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}